Pukhlein – A deep fried rice flour snack

Pukhlein , the recipe we are going to see today is from Meghalaya. It is a rice flour snack and needs just two ingredients. Surprised? Read ahead.

Meghalaya Cuisine – cooking challenge

This month, in our FB group Shhh Secretly cooking challenge theme is to cook from Meghalaya. Meghalaya is a North Eastern Indian state. The Meghalaya cuisine have three different distinct style of cooking,Garo, Khasi and Jaintia. The Pukhlein recipe is from Khasi style. They mostly use rice in their diet.

In our challenge,we are paired with other fellow blogger and we each other share secret ingredients which other people in the group doesn’t know. Once we share the recipe photo, the others start guessing the secret ingredients, How fun it is,right? This time I’m paired with talented and lovely blogger Vidya Narayan from Masala Chilli. She have a variety of mouth watering vegetarian dishes. Please have a look at her site.She made amazing Meghalaya Mushroom Soup from the ingredients I gave her. She gave me Rice flour and jaggery.

What is Pukhlein?

Pukhlein is a popular deep fried rice flour snack in Meghalaya. Interestingly this Pukhlein tastes similar to our Kerala delicacy Nei Appam or Tamil Nadu’s Athirasam.

This dish has only two ingredients. It is Rice flour and jaggery. See, how smartly I used my ingredients,lol. It is crispy outside and crumbly inside.

How to make Pukhlein?

As I said, Pukhlein needs just two ingredients. We start with making jaggery syrup. Then add rice flour to jaggery syrup and cook to form non sticky mass of dough. Make patties with the batter and deep fry. Serve warm. It makes a great combo to have along tea.

Tips to make Pukhlein

The batter is so soft. So be careful when you deep fry. The patties tend to break when you flip. I used two spatulas to flip it carefully.

Phuklein - deep fried rice flour snack

Phuklein is a popular deep fried rice flour snack in Meghalaya.This dish has only two ingredients. It is Rice flour and jaggery.

Course Snack

Cuisine Indian

Keyword How to make deep fried rice flour snack, how to make phuklein, Snack

Prep Time 10minutes

Cook Time 9minutes

Total Time 19minutes

Servings 8Nos

Author Lathiya Shanmugasundaram

Ingredients

1CupRice flour

1/2CupJaggery Syrup

Oil To deep fry

Instructions

Check this post to see how to make Jaggery syrup.

Take jaggery syrup in a pan and heat it.

When it starts boil, add rice flour slowly and mix simultaneously.

Mix till it forms the non stick mass. Remove from heat.

Heat oil in another pan.

Take a small portion of the rice flour batter and flatten it as patties.

Drop the rice flour patties slowly in the hot oil.

When one side is cooked to golden brown, carefully flip it to other side and cook till done.

Repeat the same with the remaining batter.

Serve warm.

Notes

When you start mixing the rice flour, add it slowly. You will not need the whole cup of flour. It depends on the quality of the flour.

If you are using store bought rice flour,dry roast it slightly before adding it to jaggery syrup.

Cook phuklein in medium flame. If not the outer layer will burn fast and inside will not be cooked.

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I love your phuklein! The North Eastern States have a lesson for us in simplicity – making mouth watering food with just a few ingredients and hardly any spices! And as you say, this does sound quite a bit like adhirsam! I enjoyed reading this post!

Loved the dessert Lathi. This sounds and looks very similar to Athirasam of the South India but with fewer ingredients and less cook time. I don’t think this dessert would last for a long time at my place. It would be over before we realise.

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